(n.) A small grommet, or a ring or loop of rope / metal for holding things in position, as spars, ropes, etc.; also a bracket, a pocket, or a handle made of rope.
(n.) A spade for digging turf.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This would require them to prove that YouView is dominant, which could be tricky, given the state of the market," said Becket McGrath, a partner at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge.
(2) This stunningly serious and passionate movie investigates the monks' spiritual trials, finding in them something equivalent to Thomas Becket or even Christ.
(3) In Becket he faced off against Burton's Thomas Becket, a saint in the making, and in The Lion in Winter he struggled against the increasing ambition and resentment of his sons and his wife, Eleanor Of Aquitaine, played by Hepburn.
(4) He went straight into another movie, Becket (directed by Peter Glenville , 1964), with Burton, and he elected to do Brecht's Baal on the London stage as it was the kind of rogue play no one else would touch.
(5) In later years, Runcie used to say he was probably the first Archbishop of Canterbury since Thomas à Becket to have been into battle.
(6) In a memorable exchange, Senator Angus King of Maine asked: “When a president of the United States in the Oval Office says something like ‘I hope’ or ‘I suggest’ or ‘would you,’ do you take that as a directive?” Comey replied: “Yes, it rings in my ear as kind of, ‘Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?’” – a reference to King Henry’s II’s kiss of death to Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
(7) He was nominated for Oscars for his performances in Peter Glenville's Becket in 1964, playing opposite Burton, and in Anthony Harvey's The Lion in Winter in 1968, with Katharine Hepburn.
(8) But O'Toole was now an international celebrity – there was another nomination for Becket (he and Burton were edged out by Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady).
(9) Both Burton and O'Toole won Oscar nominations for Becket but said they were drunk throughout most of the shooting.
(10) The Thomas a Becket gym, where Cooper trained for the Ali world title fight, was part of that heritage.
(11) He got off comparatively lightly, he considers, reflecting on the fate of Thomas Becket, murdered in the cathedral on 29 December 1170.
(12) Becket McGrath, a competition lawyer with Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge, said: "The argument the Competition Commission have already concluded that News Corporation already has material influence over Sky is not legally robust.
(13) Eric Abetz: Coalition MPs will not be bound by plebiscite on marriage equality Read more For example, another “religious liberty” law firm, the Becket Fund , dominated by conservative Roman Catholics, successfully litigated the Hobby Lobby case, and has also represented clients at the European court of human rights.
(14) The NUT also cited Becket Keys Church school, planned for Brentwood, in Essex, on the site of a former school, Sawyers Hall College.
(15) The temporal analysis of ambivalence is based on an account given by two schizophrenic patients and the study of Samuel Becket's "The Nameless One".
(16) Those who saw him play leading roles on the screen from Lawrence in 1962, or through the role of Henry II in Becket, and The Lion in Winter, or through the dozens of films, will recognise a lifetime devoted to the artform of the camera.
(17) As the whole grisly session continued he developed a gesture which involved holding his hands together as if in prayer, while suddenly bending forwards, so he looked like Justin Welby's forerunner Thomas à Becket being hit by the first knight.
(18) Becket McGrath, a lawyer at Berwin Leighton Paisner, argues that the Competition Commission is unlikely to be radical but could use its announcement to trigger Ofcom to undertake a wider review of the TV ad market.
(19) According to Becket McGrath, a competition lawyer at Edwards, Angell, Palmer and Dodge, the CAT will look to make a decision on BSkyB's stay appeal "within a matter of weeks".
(20) Becket McGrath, a partner in EU and competition at law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, said: "If followed by the full court, this opinion has serious implications for the Premier League and Sky.
Dig
Definition:
(v. t.) To turn up, or delve in, (earth) with a spade or a hoe; to open, loosen, or break up (the soil) with a spade, or other sharp instrument; to pierce, open, or loosen, as if with a spade.
(v. t.) To get by digging; as, to dig potatoes, or gold.
(v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well.
(v. t.) To thrust; to poke.
(v. i.) To work with a spade or other like implement; to do servile work; to delve.
(v. i.) To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore.
(v. i.) To work like a digger; to study ploddingly and laboriously.
(n.) A thrust; a punch; a poke; as, a dig in the side or the ribs. See Dig, v. t., 4.
(v. t.) A plodding and laborious student.
Example Sentences:
(1) Its few remaining mines involve people digging coal out of hillsides.
(2) The satellite component is not found when digging up from the tube bottom.
(3) And stopping them means taking action in Syria, because it is Raqqa that is their headquarters .” Isis digging in amid intensified airstrikes in Raqqa, say activists Read more He added: “We shouldn’t be content with outsourcing our security to our allies.
(4) Who shot you in the back as you drove on your motorbike to dig your children out of the rubble?
(5) Things like digging in the garden often cause low back pain, and exercises will be good treatment for this.
(6) Its boot always held a bivouac bag, a trenching tool of some sort and a towel and trunks, in case he passed somewhere interesting to sleep, dig, or swim.
(7) "In high-value areas like London it can be worthwhile digging under the house to add a basement, but in other parts of the country it won't be worth it," says Helen Brunskill of Brunskill Design Architects.
(8) The conditions for the incorporation of digoxigenin-11-dUTP (dig-11-dUTP) during polymerization were optimized to generate strand specific DNA hybridization probes up to a length of 5000 nt.
(9) Dig-ASO testing correctly reclassified 10 individuals who had tested inconclusively on analysis for leukocyte beta-hexosaminidase A activity; 3 were identified as carriers and 7 as noncarriers.
(10) Before digging into the problems with this latest solution, one big acknowledgment must be made: this is about as big a step as the ECB could have taken.
(11) It tells you everything you need to know about a Russia digging in for another 12 years of Putin.
(12) Merkl says the plan is to “really dig into the economics of collection and recycling so that people will find it profitable to collect and to separate.
(13) The judge noted the “seriousness of these offences and impact on road traffic, particularly given the number of fines previously issued against BT by TfL for similar offences.” Firms undertaking work anywhere in London need a permit before digging up the roads, allowing highway authorities to coordinate work to minimise disruption.
(14) Fracking for shale gas involves digging, often as deep as a kilometre down, and pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals into surrounding rock to fracture it and release the gas.
(15) This has been a really fascinating half of football: the favourites finally showing some real class up front, the minnows digging deep in defence and occasionally breaking forward.
(16) Dig deeper into the funding numbers – the real story of national politics in the post Citizens United age – and the Tea Party realignment of the GOP stands out yet more starkly.
(17) Welbeck's goal drought came to an end when Rafael da Silva wriggled clear on the right and managed to dig out a deep cross that the unmarked Adnan Januzaj, whom Moyes felt came in for some rough treatment, headed against the far post.
(18) Stephen Fisher, one of the archaeologists recording the site, says digging the trenches would also have been training for the men, who would soon have to do it for real, and the little slit trenches scattered across the site, just big enough for one man to cower in, might represent their first efforts.
(19) We do not need parliamentary inquiries or royal commissions to dig into this."
(20) "Landlords have a duty to give assured shorthold tenants at least two months' notice when evicting them," says Heather Kennedy of Digs.